Pokhara – In a bid to conserving birds and promoting tourism, a bird festival has kicked off here Tuesday.
The festival organized by Pokhara Bird Society would continue for three days, said Chairman Manashant Ghimire.
The visitors in the festival were provided orientation about varieties of birds on the first day. The training was attended by 67 tour guides. They would be taken to fields on the second day for birds viewing.
Similarly, photo exhibition on birds found in Pokhara and the vicinity would be held and poem recitation competition on the theme of ‘bird, human and tourism’ organized.
On the third day of the festival, representatives from 38 organizations working in the sector of birds and biodiversity would have the opportunity to take part in bird counting competition. Even the ornithologists would make seven presentations.
According to journalist Krishna Mani Baral, who has been writing about bird conservation for long, eight percent of foreign tourists come for viewing birds in Nepal.
Among 887 species of birds found in Nepal, more than fifty percent is found in Pokhara and the vicinity, he added. RSS
